Middle School Departments In Middle School, you’ll rotate through seven academic departments each day, experiencing a variety of immersive and engaging learning experiences that nurture your unique growth. Arts Language Arts Mathematics Physical Education & Health Science Social Studies World Language Arts Language Arts Mathematics Physical Education & Health Science Social Studies World Language Middle School News and Stories October 1, 2026 Our Table, Our Stories Outside Katie Taylor’s and Marcella Brideson’s sixth-grade language arts and world cultures classrooms, students have spilled into the hallway, clustered around tablets and draft pages, peering over one another’s shoulders. One group debates color palettes. A warm orange, someone argues, feels more inviting. Another student isn’t convinced; it competes with the photographs. Across the room, […] Read more January 12, 2026 Coming Full Circle How one seventh-grade awakening became the foundation for a career spent helping students discover their own. You might call it a full-circle moment. Long before Lucy Dawson became Cary Academy’s Middle School Dean of Students—and long before she helped shape a seventh-grade humanities experience known for its intellectual depth, interdisciplinary connections, and student-centered care—she was […] Read more January 7, 2025 Water Planet In CA’s Middle School science labs, students don’t merely learn the facts and figures of science. Instead, they transform into engaged scientists, activists, and communicators thanks to an evolving year-long teaching and learning approach that blends classroom science with immersive experiential and social-emotional learning opportunities and equity-minded service. Moving beyond theory to engage with science […] Read more Load More
